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The nurse manager wants to encourage staff nurses to enroll in an RN-BSN
program. Which patient centered outcomes are likely to encourage the staff nurses
to obtain a higher degree level?
Patients cared for by BSN (or higher) prepared nurses have more positive
outcomes
The nurse educator is giving a presentation on military nursing. Which statement
by one of the attendees indicates that the teaching has been effective?
Military nurses have great opportunities for advanced education.
- Military nurses have great opportunities for advanced education, and are
supported during schooling. Tuition, books, moving expenses and even salary are
often supplied. Military nurses are required to hold a BSN for active duty and be
between the ages of 21 and 46½ to enter active duty. They are not required to have
any specialized previous experience.
The nurse educator is presenting a lecture on the contributions of Florence
Nightingale. Which statement from one of the students indicates that the teaching
has been effective?
Nightingale founded the first school of nursing.
,The nurse professor is presenting a lecture on Clara Barton. Which statement by
one of the nurses indicates that the teaching has been effective?
founded the American Red Cross
The nurse is presenting a lecture on the first nursing schools in the United States.
Which statement by one of the attendees indicates that the teaching has been
effective?
Linda Richards was the first trained nurse in the United States. The first nursing
schools in the United States were opened in 1873; they were located in Boston,
Massachusetts and New York.
The nurse is listening to a lecture regarding the nursing education of African
Americans during the early 1900s. Which statement indicates that the teaching has
been effective?
"Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first professionally trained African-American nurse
in the United States."
The nurse is presenting a lecture on nursing image, and how to keep this image
positive. Which statement by the students indicates that further education is
needed?
Ignoring negative images in nursing does not lead to change.
- Likely, it may encourage further promotion of these negative images. In order to
promote a more positive image nurses should: contact those responsible for
negative nursing images, boycott programs or films that promote negative images
of nurses and contact those who share positive images of nursing.
,The nurse educator is presenting a lecture on the contributions of Dorothy L. Dix.
Which statement by one of the students indicates that the teaching has been
effective?
Dix was a long-time advocate for the mentally ill in the prewar years.
The nurse professor has just given a lecture on the process of professionalization.
Which statement by one of the students indicates that the teaching has been
effective?
After determining work standards, legal protection was established.
- The earliest learned professions generally followed a sequential development.
First, licensed practitioners performed full-time work in their discipline. They
determined work standards, created a body of knowledge and sought legal
protection. Finally, they established a code of ethics.
The nurse case manager is discussing the difference between a profession and an
occupation with a nursing student. Which statement should the nurse case manager
make, to accurately define a profession?
Professionals often feel that they are called to their profession.
- Professionals often feel that their profession is their calling. They often do not
change career paths, they are not motivated by reward, and they feel as though
their profession is an integral part of their lives.
, The nurse professor has just provided a lecture on the influence of Esther Lucille
Brown. Which statement by one of the nursing indicates that the teaching has been
effective?
Brown called for nursing education to be based in colleges and universities
How can the nurse manager take the first step to reduce the barriers to
professionalism in nursing?
Identify the barriers to professionalism in nursing
Using Flexner's criteria of professionalism, which attributes make nursing a
profession?
-practical, in addition to being theoretical
- motivated by altruism
- are responsive to public interest and has a strong internal organization of
members
- intellectual, as opposed to physical, and is accompanied by a high level of
personal responsibility.
The nurse educator has given a lecture on the difference between the term
"profession" and "occupation." Which statement(s) by one of the students indicates
that the teaching has been effective?